The president of SYRIZA-PS began his speech at Pyrgos Ilias by attacking the prime ministerAlexis Tsipras, proclaiming at the same time that “the time for change has come” and added: “On May 21, we turn our backs on injustice. That’s enough!”.

He then explained: “So far with the regime of opacity, nepotism, partisanship, the distribution of state robes, which seal Mr. Mitsotakis’s government tenure. So far with a state that neither can, nor wants to provide elementary security and protection to citizens. With a state that treats it as if it were the private property of the Holy Family. So far with a government that is dismantling every social protection structure, selling off strategic sectors, and at the same time handing out billions that do not belong to it, to its own children, party officials and the state-fed elite. So far with the parastatal of wiretapping, with headquarters in the Maximos Palace and the prime minister himself. So much for the cartels enjoying super profits and swindling by sponsoring the government itself. We know that this is not our country. Greece is not them”.

Continuing the attack on the prime minister and the government, he said: “Greece is not the Patsis and the Papathanasis. It’s not the blue golden bows. It is not princes and scions who rule us. Not even the ten listed companies that have hoarded billions during the inflationary crisis. The Greece of inequalities, corruption, profiteering, injustice, is not the Greece we deserve”.

Alexis Tsipras finally made a reference to the accident in Tempe saying: “The Greece of opacity and corruption, which is indifferent even to people’s lives, is not the Greece we deserve. Why this Greece that we don’t deserve was revealed a month ago in Tempi. And at the same time, the incompetence and ineffectiveness of the so-called staff state, as well as the irresponsibility of the chief of staff, were revealed. All Greeks have a responsibility except Mr. Mitsotakis. The first day it was the station master’s fault. The second was the fault of the Regulatory Authority. On the third, the previous government. Who else; SYRIZA. The fourth was everyone’s fault. The political system, the timeless pathologies, the anachronistic state, the guilds. Everyone, so no one in particular…”